Perhaps the most exciting thriller of “all times and peoples” is the history of money, a universal means of exchange between people, in a lively and sometimes paradoxical presentation by Andrei Ostalsky (b. 1955), famous journalist, editor-in-chief (2001–2009) of the Russian Service BBC. Written in an engaging and popular manner, the book is easy to read and will be of interest to both economists and ordinary readers who have not studied financial disciplines. In the text, the reader will encounter two ways of writing the word bitcoin. When it is capitalized, it refers to the payment system or the phenomenon itself. If we mean Bitcoin as a monetary unit, then the word is written with a lowercase letter.